When I started thinking about reopening Bonkers, I fully intended for it to be a platform from which not only could I write about my own life stories, opinions and the like, but also raise awareness about mental health conditions. However I’ve been struggling to write any pieces without them feeling like I’m just regurgitating symptom lists or things that I’ve learnt through my masters! I’ve been wracking my brains for the past few days to think of a solution, until I finally had a EUREKA moment in the shower just now. Guest bloggers! What better way to raise awareness of what particular mental health conditions are and how they effect people, than by having someone who actually lives with those conditions say what it feels like and how they experience it day to day! I could start the post with a bit of information about the condition in general, and then hand it over to someone who can speak from experience what it actually entails for them as an individual! A ‘living with’ blog series as it were! Continue reading

After a year or two of being out of the blogosphere, I have decided to return! Bonkers.me is a website that I have owned since 2011 and housed my personal blog for many years, but I have decided to start fresh and instead of just document my life, I want to write more about things I am passionate about, mainly mental health and other lifestyle-y things! Last year (2015) I set about re-designing and re-developing Bonkers, however I took a bad turn with my own mental health meaning that the site fell by the wayside. BUT here we finally are! Right now, I only have a few ideas for posts, but I’m hoping that once I’ve got back into the swing of things then ideas will come a lot easier to me. For now though, I’m just going to take it as it comes and focus on gaining some momentum.

I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself before I get to work on writing some REAL content! Continue reading